White Tiger on Snow Mountain: Stories
Written by David Gordon
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About this audiobook
Thirteen hilarious, moving, and beautifully brutal stories by David Gordon, the award-winning author of Mystery Girl and The Serialist.
In these funny, surprising, and touching stories, Gordon gets at the big stuff—art and religion, literature and madness, the supernatural, and the dark fringes of sexuality—in his own unique style, described by novelist Rivka Galchen as “Dashiell Hammett divided by Don DeLillo, to the power of Dostoyevsky—yet still pure David Gordon.”
Gordon’s creations include ex-gangsters and terrifying writing coaches, Internet girlfriends and bogus memoirists, Chinatown ghosts, and vampires of Queens. “The Amateur” features a cafe encounter with a terrible artist who carries a mind-blowing secret. In the long, beautifully brutal title story, a man numbed by life finds himself flirting with and mourning lost souls in the purgatory of sex chatrooms. The result is both unflinching and hilarious, heartbreaking and life-affirming.
David Gordon
David Gordon was born in New York City. He attended Sarah Lawrence College and holds an MA in English and Comparative Literature and an MFA in Writing, both from Columbia University, and has worked in film, fashion, publishing, and pornography. His first novel, The Serialist, won the VCU/Cabell First Novel Award and was a finalist for an Edgar Award. His work has also appeared in The Paris Review, Purple, and Fence among other publications.
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Reviews for White Tiger on Snow Mountain
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I loved this book! The writing was spectacular and several times I found myself laughing out loud. I highly recommend this book and its stories.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is the first book I’ve read by David Gordon, so I had no idea what to expect, and I must say it’s been an extremely pleasant surprise. This collection of thirteen stories is highly entertaining: they are at times moving, disturbing, absurd… but most of the time they are really funny (even hilarious).Although there are certain links between the stories (most of the main characters are writers, children, Jewish, losers or a combination of two or even more of the foregoing), they are very different among them. We find a blocked writer (in one of the most funny stories in the book), a kid willing to become a vampire, a former promising writer hired to act as babysitter/chaperon for a promising writer addicted to drugs, a retired criminal in love with a model for painters… My standout favorites were “We Happy Few”, “What I’ve Trying To Do All This Time”, “Su Li-Zhen”, “Vampires of Queens” and “Literature I Gave You Everything And Now What I Am?” (which has my favorite paragraph in the whole book, the one about the people who talk in cafés, which I endorse 100%).Highly recommended.